Building a Resume

Important Items to Remember

Format:

• Clean & Professional
• Plain language
• 1-2 pages
• Simple font & readable size (eg. Arial or Times New Roman 10-12)
  

Sample of relevant information to include:

• Your name and contact information
• Your education and training
• Languages spoken

Your relevant experience including:

• Professional profile/ overview “about me”
• 1-2 lines about where you’ve been and where you want to go (enough that people keep reading!)
• Where you worked
• When you worked there
• Your title
• What you actually did / accomplishments

Content:

• Be specific, and be detailed
• Talk about what you did and what you accomplished
• Read and review job postings
• Echo the wording of the posting in your resume
• Save multiple resume versions
• Try adding tags or comments for your own understanding